越,泛称我国古代东南沿海及岭南地区之民族。《吕览·恃君》称为“百越”,高诱注曰“越有百种”,说明其分布广泛,族属庞多,是由诸多具有共同文化特征的部落发展起来的大族群。关于越人的称谓问题,即越人何以名“越”,主要有两种说法:一则认为越是“夏人苗裔”,句践是禹后夏王少康庶子无余后代,在夏时遍布于黄河流域,是夏的方国。“越即夏,一音之转,大越即大夏”,①“越族为夏民族的演称”②。进而指明越族是夏朝灭亡后夏族向南迁徙之 The more, the pan-southeast China’s ancient coast and Lingnan region of the nation. The “Lvlian deity” is called “Baiyue” and the “Hundreds of Hundreds” is the high lure. It shows that it has a wide distribution and a large ethnic population. It is a large group developed by many tribes with common cultural identities. As to the issue of Vietnamese people’s name, the more people name the more “Vietnamese,” there are mainly two versions: one is that the more “Xia Chinese people”, the sentence practice is Yu Shanyu Wang Shaokang bastard future generations, The Yellow River Basin, is the summer of the country. “The more that summer, the sound of a turn, the greater the big summer”, ① “Yue ethnic group for the summer nationality” ②. Then it points out that the Yue clan migrated to the south after the Xia Dynasty’s death